"Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing."

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The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way.

— Sonia Sotomayor